Rotowire NFBC-Style Magazine Draft Today

[Greg Ambrosius]

Derek Van Riper at Rotowire.com has created an NFBC-style draft today with the results going into their 2016 Fantasy Baseball Magazine. I'm one of 15 owners in the draft, with folks like Vlad Sedler, Eric Karabell, Paul Sporer and others. I assume Todd will be in this one.

Anyone, I'll post the first 6 rounds once we're done and see if the industry writers are any different from our early NFBC drafters. Should be fun.

I'm using our early NFBC ADPs, so I hope you guys drafted well this off-season!!

[Edwards Kings]

Psssst...the Braves pitchers are real sleepers!

[Greg Ambrosius]

Yesterday's draft with 14 other industry writers was a lot of fun. To get complete results of this draft, please pick up the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball Magazine that will hit newsstands in late January. That is always one of my favorite pre-season magazines and it should be good again.

This mock draft was a 15-team, 30-round NFBC-style draft in mid-December. Never easy, but it went well. We finished in under 3 hours and didn't have any miscues. Here's a look at the first 6 rounds:

1.01 Paul Goldschmidt 1B
1.02 Mike Trout OF
1.03 Clayton Kershaw SP
1.04 Bryce Harper OF
1.05 Manny Machado 3B
1.06 Josh Donaldson 3B
1.07 Carlos Correa SS
1.08 Nolan Arenado 3B
1.09 Giancarlo Stanton OF
1.10 Anthony Rizzo 1B
1.11 A.J. Pollock OF
1.12 Jose Altuve 2B
1.13 Kris Bryant 3B
1.14 Edwin Encarnacion DH
1.15 Andrew McCutchen OF

2.01 Jose Bautista OF
2.02 Chris Sale SP
2.03 Starling Marte OF
2.04 Mookie Betts OF
2.05 J.D. Martinez OF
2.06 Miguel Cabrera 1B
2.07 Max Scherzer SP
2.08 Jake Arrieta SP
2.09 Jose Abreu 1B
2.10 Joey Votto 1B
2.11 Dee Gordon 2B
2.12 George Springer OF
2.13 Kyle Schwarber OF
2.14 Buster Posey C
2.15 Zack Greinke SP

3.01 Xander Bogaerts SS
3.02 Matt Harvey SP
3.03 Troy Tulowitzki SS
3.04 Jose Fernandez SP
3.05 David Price SP
3.06 Charlie Blackmon OF
3.07 Chris Davis 1B
3.08 Carlos Gonzalez OF
3.09 Madison Bumgarner SP
3.10 Ryan Braun OF
3.11 Todd Frazier 3B
3.12 Nelson Cruz OF
3.13 Corey Kluber SP
3.14 Jacob DeGrom SP
3.15 Yoenis Cespedes OF

4.01 Robinson Cano 2B
4.02 Lorenzo Cain OF
4.03 Carlos Gomez OF
4.04 Gerrit Cole SP
4.05 Adrian Gonzalez 1B
4.06 Stephen Strasburg SP
4.07 Noah Syndergaard SP
4.08 Anthony Rendon 3B
4.09 Adam Jones OF
4.10 Dallas Keuchel SP
4.11 Miguel Sano DH
4.12 Chris Archer SP
4.13 Jason Heyward OF
4.14 Felix Hernandez SP
4.15 Jason Kipnis 2B

5.01 Matt Kemp OF
5.02 Eric Hosmer 1B
5.03 Brian Dozier 2B
5.04 Carlos Carrasco SP
5.05 Freddie Freeman 1B
5.06 Justin Upton OF
5.07 Hunter Pence OF
5.08 Johnny Cueto SP
5.09 Wade Davis RP
5.10 Prince Fielder DH
5.11 Sonny Gray SP
5.12 Francisco Lindor SS
5.13 Albert Pujols 1B
5.14 Matt Carpenter 3B
5.15 Corey Dickerson OF

6.01 Corey Seager SS
6.02 Gregory Polanco OF
6.03 Ian Desmond SS
6.04 Craig Kimbrel RP
6.05 Kyle Seager 3B
6.06 Jacoby Ellsbury OF
6.07 Rougned Odor 2B
6.08 Trevor Rosenthal RP
6.09 Adrian Beltre 3B
6.1 Ian Kinsler 2B
6.11 Christian Yelich OF
6.12 Andrew Miller RP
6.13 Marcus Stroman SP
6.14 Kenley Jansen RP
6.15 Michael Brantley OF

Thoughts?

[Greg Ambrosius]

I had the second pick in this draft and came away with Mike Trout. Here's what I left with:

1.02 Mike Trout OF
2.14 Buster Posey C
3.02 Matt Harvey SP
4.14 Felix Hernandez SP
5.02 Eric Hosmer 1B
6.14 Kenley Jansen RP
7.02 Maikel Franco 3B
8.14 Brandon Crawford SS
9.02 Billy Hamilton OF
10.14 Masahiro Tanaka SP
11.02 Steven Matz SP
12.14 Daniel Murphy 2B
13.02 Huston Street RP
14.14 Shelby Miller SP
15.02 Dexter Fowler OF
16.14 Alex Rodriguez DH
17.02 Nick Hundley C
18.14 Avisail Garcia OF
19.02 Taylor Jungmann SP
20.14 Wilmer Flores SS
21.02 Joe Mauer 1B
22.14 Gerardo Parra OF
23.02 Yovani Gallardo SP
24.14 Rich Hill SP
25.02 Martin Prado 3B
26.14 Asdrubal Cabrera SS
27.02 J.A. Happ SP
28.14 Billy Butler DH
29.02 Julio Urias SP
30.14 Chris Young OF

Feel free to go at it. It was my first dive into baseball of the season!!

[Captain Hook]

Feel free to go at it. It was my first dive into baseball of the season!!

Well aside from the XFL auction

Curious why you took Posey so early (normally the industry drafts go late on C) and what your choices were at 2.14?

[Teufel Hunden]

Surprised Votto went at 2.10, did not realize Doughboys had a team to draft.

[Captain Hook]

Surprised Votto went at 2.10, did not realize Doughboys had a team to draft.

Maybe someone thought it was an OBP league .... or stuck in a time warp from 2010

[DOUGHBOYS]

Surprised Votto went at 2.10, did not realize Doughboys had a team to draft.

Ha! Tom!!!
I am ALWAYS surprised Votto is taken in the second round.

[ToddZ]

Mastersball subscribers can probably pick out my squad pretty easily. Let's play guess Zola's team and I'll post it later for proper mocking.

[whipsaw]

BHam won't last anywhere close to 9th round once the real drafts fly, same for Matz in the 11th. Certainly like those picks. Think you popped Crawford a little too early. Closers always seem to go much later in expert mocks than in real drafts.

[Bronx Yankees]

Mastersball subscribers can probably pick out my squad pretty easily. Let's play guess Zola's team and I'll post it later for proper mocking.

Alright, I'll guess Team 11.

Mike

[JohnP]

Mastersball subscribers can probably pick out my squad pretty easily. Let's play guess Zola's team and I'll post it later for proper mocking.

I haven't signed up for your projections yet but I am thinking Team 12.

[SpinningSeams]

Mastersball subscribers can probably pick out my squad pretty easily. Let's play guess Zola's team and I'll post it later for proper mocking.

Alright, I'll guess Team 11.

I'm going with Team 11 as well.

[ToddZ]

1.11 A.J. Pollock OF
2.05 J.D. Martinez OF
3.11 Todd Frazier 3B
4.05 Adrian Gonzalez 1B
5.11 Sonny Gray SP
6.05 Kyle Seager 3B
7.11 Jordan Zimmermann SP
8.05 Salvador Perez C
9.11 Cody Allen RP
10.05 Francisco Liriano SP
11.11 Brad Boxberger RP
12.05 Ketel Marte SS
13.11 Yordano Ventura SP
14.05 Brett Lawrie 2B
15.11 Jaime Garcia SP
16.05 James McCann C
17.11 Steven Souza OF
18.05 Erick Aybar SS
19.11 Hyun-Jin Ryu SP
20.05 Eddie Rosario OF
21.11 Alexei Ramirez SS
22.05 Steve Cishek RP
23.11 Brett Anderson SP
24.05 Hyun-Soo Kim OF
25.11 Jake Peavy SP
26.05 Adam Conley SP
27.11 Drew Pomeranz RP
28.05 Seth Smith OF
29.11 Desmond Jennings OF
30.05 Johnny Giavotella 2B